#extremophiles

#extremophiles

A global research team has analyzed the prospects for biomineralization on Mars, a process in which bacteria, fungi, and microalgae can create minerals as part of their metabolism, offering a byproduct that could be useful to prospective Martian explorers by providing the raw materials needed to produce aggregates such as concrete. With an extremely thin and mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere, air pressure less than 1 percent of Earth's,

A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The discoverydescribed in a preprint study on the server bioRxiv and not yet peer-reviewedpushes the boundaries of our understanding of life's limits